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Transforming Legal Identities of the Surnameless Hmong/Miao Others: Genesis of Sinic Surnames among the Hmong and the State Building in Late Imperial and Republican China Long Yu-Xiao China has been a multiethnic country with tremendous cultural-linguistic diversity, consisting of Han-Chinese and many non-Han ethnic minorities. In Han-Chinese historiographies and gazettes in late imperial and Republic eras, non-Han groups in the south were often depicted as “surnameless savages.” In fact, among most of these groups, there were indigenous family names that were conceivably equivalent to surnames among Han-Chinese in terms of functionalities. However, the indigenous family names were not counted as “Xing” or surnames, arguably due to that the pronunciations were alien to Han-Chinese and did not fit into the typical one-syllable model of sinic surnames. Moreover, in these ethnic peoples' everyday practices and customary legal systems, given names or tekeisonyms had been used as legal names without such family names routinely adhered. Therefore, in the state's civilizing projects devised for governing these groups, dissemination and adoption of sinic surnames played an important role. Through an analysis of the genesis and use of sinic surnames, particularly for civil registration and taxation purposes, among the Hmong, this paper shall present a case study of the role of sinic surnames in ethnic governance and state-building in late imperial and Republican China, illuminating the social-historical contexts and the ways in which sinic surnames were adopted and transformed legalities and identities among the Hmong over time. By interrogating the hegemony and contestations around the use of sinic surnames among the Hmong, the paper aims to demonstrate how the cultural politics of naming has been articulated with government rationality to reshape the ethnoscapes in building the Chinese multiethnic state. http://bbs.3miao.net/thread-47455-1-1.html Edited by ren, Mar 30 2012, 07:27:31 AM.
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